News Headlines - 08 December 2014
▽German union launches new strike at Amazon warehouses | Reuters
Workers at two of Amazon.com's (AMZN.O) German warehouses went on strike on Monday as labor union Verdi sought to squeeze the online retailer in the busy pre-Christmas period in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions.
▽Apple, Amazon refuse to release federal diversity data
Apple and Amazon, two of technology's most powerful companies, are refusing to release federal data on the diversity of their workforces.
▽Middle classes facing ‘catastrophe’ of rate rise | The Times
Middle-class families who have benefited from an era of cheap borrowing will suffer the most when interest rates are increased, the Bank of England warns today.
Viking colonisations of Europe may have been more like romantic getaways than drunken stag weekends, according to a study of Norse DNA showing the importance of women in the Scandinavian subjugation of the British Isles during the Middle Ages.
▽Curiosity Rover’s Quest for Clues on Mars - NYTimes.com
More than 3.5 billion years ago, a meteor slammed into Mars near its equator, carving a 96-mile depression now known as Gale Crater.
That was unremarkable. Back then, Mars, Earth and other bodies in the inner solar system were regularly pummeled by space rocks, leaving crater scars large and small.
